The steam4me Gallery

November 1975: In 1975, Ballan was a quiet
country station located on the down after what was often a
gruelling climb up Ingliston Bank. "Back in the days", steam
would often pause here to take water.

Note the infrastructure that seemed to be part and parcel of the
railways in those days: stiff leg derrick, diamond crossover
(leading to cattle loading race behind left of the photographer),
points indicator (complete with protective bar), somersault
semaphore signals, deeply ballastedand well maintained high speed
mainline track (not!) and water tanks on both down and up sides of
station.